(adjective) : vĕrēcundus, a, um, vereor
* Feeling shame (at any thing good or bad), shamefaced, bashful, shy, coy, modest, diffident, etc.
* Lit.: nimis verecunda es (uxor),Plaut. Am. 3, 2, 22: decet verecundum esse adulescentem,id. As. 5, 1, 6: homo non nimis verecundus,Cic. de Or. 2, 88, 361: misi ad te quattuor admonitores non nimis verecundos,id. Fam. 9, 8, 1: innocentes et verecundi,id. Leg. 1, 19, 50: populus,Hor. A. P. 207: saepe verecundum laudasti,id. Ep. 1, 7, 37: Bacchus, moderate, id. C. 1, 27, 3 (cf.: modicus Liber,id. ib. 1, 18, 7): orator in transferendis verecundus et parcus,Cic. Or. 24, 81: vultus,Ov. M. 14, 840: ore loqui,Mart. 8, 1, 2: color,a blush,Hor. Epod. 17, 21: rubor,Ov. M. 1, 484: pudor,id. Tr. 4, 4, 50: verecunda debet esse translatio,Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 165: oratio,Quint. 11, 3, 96: verba,id. 10, 1, 9: causa,id. 4, 5, 19: vita,Ov. Tr. 2, 354.—With subj.clause: transire in diversa subsellia, parum verecundum est,Quint. 11, 3, 133: hoc dicere verecundum est,i. e. I am ashamed,id. 7, 1, 56.—Comp.: verecundior in postulando,Cic. Phil. 14, 5, 11: verecundior in loquendo,id. Fam. 7, 33, 2: partes,i. e. the private parts,Arn. 4, 133: translatio,Quint. 9, 2, 41: confessio,id. 4, 2, 8.—Sup.: Pompejus in appetendis honoribus immodicus, in gerendis verecundissimus,Vell. 2, 33, 3.
* Transf., objectively, worthy of reverence, venerable (late Lat.): nomen populi Romani,Amm. 14, 6, 6; cf. id. 21, 16, 11; 30, 8, 4: praetor,Capitol. Ver. 8.—Adv. (acc. to I.), shamefacedly, bashfully, shyly, modestly.
* Form vĕrēcundē, Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 6; id. Brut. 22, 87; Liv. 26, 49, 16.—*
* Form vĕrēcundĭter, Pompon. ap. Non. 516, 23.
* Comp.: verecundius,Cic. de Or. 1, 37, 171; Quint. 4, 1, 13; 11, 1, 84.